{"id":31665,"date":"2023-12-05T13:44:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31665"},"modified":"2023-12-05T13:44:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:44:48","slug":"my-undocumented-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/05\/my-undocumented-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"My Undocumented Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might think, gentle reader, that I document all my raging consumerism and materialism here just because I often mention books, videos, records, and other music I buy. Ah, gentle reader, but I do not tell you everything I buy! I mean, I might, if you cheap rascals would have ever clicked the Amazon links when I had them. But you did not, and Amazon disassociated me because apparently keeping my links active was too much of a hassle for them. So updating 20 years of book reports was all for naught.<\/p>\n

Where was I? Oh, yes, I was about to tell you about something else I bought.<\/p>\n

When I went to Hobby Lobby at the beginning of November (when I bought the Santa<\/a> which my beautiful wife now claims to have seen without mentioning it), I also bought some calligraphy supplies. A calligraphy kit which came with a cartridge-based stylus with different nibs and a calligraphy book and some calligraphy markers.<\/p>\n

Because I remember calligraphy units in art classes in middle school, and I was not completely bad at them.<\/p>\n

So I thought that I might try again. I have them at the desk in the parlor, currently overwhelmed with Christmas records, and I have sat down a couple of times to work on trying to write the alphabet. Unfortunately, the calligraphy book that came with the kit only had one calligraphy-looking alphabet\/font. Most of them were in block print, and the book has text in several languages taking up some of its bulk. <\/p>\n

I mention it because I ran across an article, St. Louis calligrapher can personalize everything from holiday ornaments to perfume bottles<\/a>, about a woman who has a business doing calligraphy and engraving, including “event” gigs where she goes to a party and does on-demand calligraphy and engraving.<\/p>\n

Not something for me as I’m nowhere nearly consistent nor steady enough for professional work. But cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might think, gentle reader, that I document all my raging consumerism and materialism here just because I often mention books, videos, records, and other music I buy. Ah, gentle reader, but I do not tell you everything I buy! I mean, I might, if you cheap rascals would have ever clicked the Amazon links […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handicrafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31666,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31665\/revisions\/31666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}